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 NOTE Tni'SE letters are ascribed to Sherman on the authority men- tioned at page 213. In a letter from James Madison to Edmund Randolph, {^Cor- respondence, I, 6"^, he says: On the subject of amendments, nothing has been publickly, and very little privately, said. Such as I am known to have es- poused will, as far as I can gather, be attainable from the federal- ists, who sufficiently predominate in both branches, though with some the concurrence will proceed from a spirit of conciliation rather than conviction. Connecticut is least inclined, though I presume not inflexibly opposed, to a moderate revision. A paper, which will probably be republished in the Virginia gazettes, under the signature of a citizen of New Haven, unfolds Mr. Sher- man's opinions. In the Writings of John Adams, (vi, 427), is a correspondence between Adams and Sherman, produced by these articles, which should be studied in connection with them. (231) (231)